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SALVATION : WHAT DOES IT AFFECT -SPIRIT, SOUL OR BODY?
by Dare Olusola The soul that doesn't sin will live, become strong and be vibrant (John 4:10-14). I will put sin under three categories: 1. The Original sin: Adam's sin that has effect over all human race (Rom 5:12-19). You didn't commit it, but you inherited it. 2. Subsequent sin: Sin you are committing by yourself. They are not iherited, but were committed by individuals who could choose not to commit them (Ezikiel 18:1-13) 3. Sin that is not unto death: sin of ommission. God wants you to sit down, but in your ignorance you are standing up (1John 5:16-17; James 4:17). Man is not body, soul and spirit. He is spirit, soul and body. Get the arrangement clear! (1Thess 5:23). God formed the body from the dust, He then put a portion of Himself (His Spirit through His breath) into the body and also gave him (man) a soul (Gen 1:26; 2:7). Man connects with God with his spirit (Rom 8:16), he connects with the intelectual realm with his soul (Knowledge - Rom 6:16) and he connects with the physical realm with his body -his sense organs (Mat 5:1-2). Man is a spirit, he has a soul and he lives in the body. When a man is born again, salvation only affects his spirit at that point (John3:6); he has to begin the work of soul renewal by himself. He will have to deliberately expose himself to information that will help him to cleanse his soul. He needs to delete wrong information from his soul and fill it with godly ones so as to save his soul. When the soul is filled with godly information through study, his body can now respond to the information stored up in his soul (Eph 4:21-25; Rom 12:1-2; 2Cor4:6; Col 3:9-10). At salvation, your spirit is born again and it cannot sin again. When you commit sin by responding to the wrong information in your unregenerated soul, your spirit reacts violently. You loose your peace. Your conscience pricks you (1John 3:9). In Ezekiel 19:4 God claims ownership over human souls. God lives in the spirit of man and not in his soul, though He owns the soul of man (2Cor 6:16). The soul can still sin because it has not been completely regenerated at salvation point though the spirit has been redeemed (Heb9:12; James 1:21-25). The redemption of soul is gradual and it is based on the kind of information we expose it to. When Godly information fills the soul, it strenghtens the spirit and allows God's Spirit who lives in human spirit to operate freely. But when the soul is filled with sinful thought, it gives satan free access into the soul to continously cast darkness upon the soul until the soul becomes hardened and spiritually dead. Sin without impunity sets in and the person eventually looses his salvation or backslides. Hence, the context of death in Ezekiel 18:4 is synonimous with death in 1Timothy 5:6. God bless you I work as a Missionary Evangelist with Christ Emissaries Global Mission with our operation base located in Ikere Ekiti, Nigeria. I am married and God blessed us with 3 boys. www.pastordare.mywapblog.com Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |